Definition Of Racism

[Jordyboy9]

I sat with one of Cornwall’s landed gentry 2 years ago a lovely summers evening,we were discussing subjects dear to my heart dogs specifically labradors,when right out of the blue he turns to me and says,
This is not my England anymore and if I was younger I would sell up and move abroad,then says I that would make you an immigrant in someone else his country,your right says he but I would make a better contribution than what we are getting in my beloved England,reason I can post this I just heard that he died last month,was he a racist and am I as I agreed with him then ?,a true English gentlemen,RIP

[Zacs-Master]

No. It’s more like xenophobia. He seems to have blanket targeted all immigrants rather than one race.

[Mamyalynne]

RIP to your friend.

I didn't know him.

[andy-hughes]

No he's not a racist, based on that point of view.

If he was to say that it is not 'his England' because it has been over-run by foreign criminal scum seeking handouts blah blah blah … - then yes, he would be a racist.

Racism involves denigrating a person or group based on their ethnicity only - it's that simple.

[Zacs-Master]

I don’t think that is racism, Andy. You have to be seen to be denigrating a particular race judged on the actions on one person or a few, to be racist.

[dannyk13]

H doesn't fit into the definition:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

[sanmac]

Jordyboy9, if your late friend had said "that it is not 'his England' because it has been over-run by foreign criminal scum seeking handouts blah blah blah..." then he would have been a realist.

[-Talbot-]

I think you need a rethink, andy.

[ummmm]

People say how tolerant we are as a nation but I don't think it's true. I see so many intolerant people.

[-Talbot-]

We're tolerant in comparison to Germany.

[sanmac]

Or even most of the countries in the Middle East.

[retrocop]

I believe we are a tolerant nation. Problem is it is considered, by some guests , as a sign of weakness and a soft touch for them to seriously abuse.

[Theland]

It's in our DNA to want to be close and comfortable with our own tribe.

That is true of White, Black, Brown, Yellow, Protestant, Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, Chelsea fan, Spurs fan, Socialist, Comservative, Army versus Navy versus Air Force, Northerners versus Southerners, Rich versus Poor, and the list goes on and on and on.
And then along comes some politician with visions of social engineering, and we find inclusiveness and multiculturalism being stuffed down our throats, and it simply does not work.

[Mamyalynne]

//It's in our DNA to want to be close and comfortable with our own tribe. //

That's an interesting point and not one I would always agree with.

I wonder why it is then that as soon as mankind discovered modes of travel they set off to find foreign lands and new people - often to conquer as much as learn about.

Maybe the next step is a cry to uninvent the wheel etc?

[Theland]

Mama - I disagree. We Western European people have always been adventurous. No Muslims or Africans ever went first to the the North or South poles, or scaled Everest.

[Mamyalynne]

That is not my point, but never mind - have said what I needed to.

[ummmm]

Talbot - I've only been to Germany once when I was a teenager and I found it lovely, but different times back then.

I find people get irritated by the elderly taking too long to pay for their food in the supermarket, children having melt downs, stuck in traffic etc etc.

We may be tolerant of immigrants and welcoming but not tolerant of day to day activities.

[Theland]

Mama - Our curiosity brought us discoveries geographically, scientifically, and that says it all. Curiosity.
Some races appear to be devoid of this trait.
But maybe I am wrong, but can't think where.

[JimF]

"No Muslims or Africans ever went first to the the North or South poles, or scaled Everest."

No indeed, but it was a Nepalese Buddhist who scaled Everest equal first, if we are to believe the account of Edmund Hilary who always refused to say which of them actually set foot on the summit first.

And the Eskimos who inhabited the Northern Polar region long before Amundsen ever set snow-shoe there were into animism and shaminism, or doesn't that count?

[Theland]

Jimf - you convinced me. I am a second rate white heterosexual who owes so much to Sherpas, and Eskimos.

[Mamyalynne]

Off he goes again.